Video game composers team up for benefit album

Composers from Dead Space 2, Mass Effect, and Dragon Age series involved; album's proceeds to go to struggling musicians.

Update: The article's second paragraph has been edited to specify the cause.

The last time game composers gathered to make an album for a good cause was for the Play for Japan: The Album collection to amass donations for the Tohuku earthquake and tsunami victims. This time, a slew of video game composers have teamed up to create the Novum Initium album.

The album is dedicated to supporting working musicians in need of monetary aid, specifically for those facing illness and disabilities. The album's creators are also in collaboration with the Sweet Relief Musicians Fund organization.

The album itself will contain all-new original music from the likes of Sam Hulick (Mass Effect), Brian Tyler (MW3), Inon Zur, Jack Wall (Mass Effect), Garry Schyman (BioShock), and many more.

The album is available for digital download on December 6, via iTunes, Amazon MP3, CDBaby.com, Bandcamp, and 7digital. Twenty limited-edition CDs containing signatures from the composers and cover art by illustrator Aurelien Police are currently on sale on eBay.

Gotta buy this, but where in damnation are Koji Kondo and Nobuo Uematsu!? You can't even talk about video game composers without those two. But many of those are great composers too. Many seem to like Inon Zur, and I like his music too, but I just don't like it outside of games. It's more like background music and I at least don't even notice it most of the time. Not like Kondo and Uematsu, who's music just blows your brains out with epicness that almost steals the show completely :)

ziproy: it's not a terrible cause. GameSpot didn't properly explain what the charity is for. They're not just giving money to musicians who are broke. To quote the press release: "all proceeds from the album will be donated to the Sweet Relief Musicians Fund which provides financial assistance to career musicians who are struggling to make ends meet while facing illness, disability, or age-related problems"
Still think it's a terrible cause?